Music
Much to the joy of the sold-out crowd, Lost Lander played primarily from its brand new release, Medallion, at its hometown record release show at Mississippi Studios on Feb. 27. It's a glistening pop record that marks a departure from the more nuanced dream-rock of its debut, DRRT. Bigger stages are almost certainly in Lost Lander’s future, given its anthemic new sound, and as Friday’s show proved, the band is already familiar with arena trickery, from impromptu wedding proposals to sp... More

News
Patrick Kanealey, a 47-year-old social studies teacher at Cleveland High School, was charged last month with two misdemeanor counts of patronizing a prostitute, according to a Feb. 25 article in Cleveland's student newspaper, The Clarion."Word of Mr. Kanealey, a Cleveland government and economics teacher, being charged with two counts of patronizing a prostitute, traveled astoundingly fast after the first picture of his mugshot was tweeted by a Cleveland student, gaining 30 retweets and 42 favor... More

Music
Much to the joy of the sold-out crowd, Lost Lander played primarily from its brand new release, Medallion, at its hometown record release show at Mississippi Studios on Feb. 27. It's a glistening pop record that marks a departure from the more nuanced dream-rock of its debut, DRRT. Bigger stages are almost certainly in Lost Lander’s future, given its anthemic new sound, and as Friday’s show proved, the band is already familiar with arena trickery, from impromptu wedding proposals to sp... More

Owner John Berning closed the 92-year-old dive on March 1

Food & Drink
The Sandy Hut is dead; long live the Sandy Hut.The owners of Club 21, Double Barrel, and Gold Dust Meridian are closing a deal this week to buy the 92-year-old bar on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, says the Hut's outgoing owner, John Berning. The Hut is a neighborhood landmark in part because of its giant sign and purple paint job—a majestically ruinous, windowless dive nicknamed the Handy Slut even on its own T-shirts. Berning shut down the bar on March 1, and says that he expects ... More

Why local artisan cidermakers are at the core of a national boom.

Cover Story
The tree wasn’t all that special. It was just too damn big.
Back in 2004, Nat
West’s friend and neighbor in North Portland, Norris Thomlinson, had a
large and craggy tree in his backyard t ... More

The Legend of Beervana

Beer Guide
Round and round they go, up one row and
down the next. They look like kids waiting to ride Space Mountain,
except they’re here for beer.
It’s
a Saturday night in San Francisco, and a bri ... More

Four labs return very different potency results from the same marijuana batch.

News Stories
Customers at Nectar Cannabis use several methods to choose the weed that’s right for them.
Some trust the
budtenders at the medical marijuana dispensary on Northeast Sandy
Boulevard to ... More

Newly obtained emails show ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber put his top political consultant in charge of Cover Oregon.

Politics
A year ago, it looked as if then-Gov John Kitzhaber’s
biggest headache was Cover Oregon, the $305 million health care website
that was pitched as a national model but became a national
laugh ... More

A survey of Portland’s gas-station food spots.

Food Reviews & Stories
In the heartland, where the towns that
survive are built along the great and open freeway, no gas station is
just a gas station. It’s the town square, the place everybody goes, home
to fresh ... More

Drank
Virtue Sidra de Nava
When he sold Goose Island brewing to Anheuser-Busch, Greg
Hall knew he’d have to stay out of beer for a while. He had a great
fallback: traditional Old World ciders made ... More

Beer Guide
Craft lager had a long, slow fermentation in Oregon.
ENGELBERG PILSNERIMAGE: Matt WongJust a few years ago,
it was rare to see a small-batch local beer descended from crisp
Bohemians in the se ... More

Beer Guide
2. Peach Slap (Batch No. 1)
Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House
Some great beers are meticulously
planned, and others are happy discoveries. Some are flat-out unicorns,
creatures that appe ... More

Beer Guide
In a state with such a vital craft beer culture, Willamette Week found
it strange that there was no award ceremony to celebrate the best of
the industry. So, this year, with the help of Ben Edmu ... More

Beer Guide
In Portland, it all comes back to IPA.
Even when you’re
looking at the furthest thing from it. Say, a beer like Cascade’s Kriek,
a robust but nuanced barrel-aged sour cherry beer, which be ... More

The very best places to get a jug to go.

Beer Guide
The Big Legrowlski
812 NW Couch St., 206-6481, biglegrowlski.com.
Way out in the Pearl there was this
minimalist 15-tap bar…bar I wanna tell ya about, bar by the name of
Legrowlski. That’s ... More

Beer Guide
Deschutes
901 SW Simpson Ave., Bend, 541-385-8606, deschutesbrewery.com
As in life, so in Bend, the best things
are free. Any day of the week, you can show up at Deschutes’s sprawling
factor ... More

Beer Guide
Pfriem
707 Portway Ave., Suite 101, Hood River, 541-321-0490, pfriembeer.com.
Pfriem’s industrial-chic pub seems to be
in a continuous state of expansion, and it isn’t hard to see why.
Wat ... More

Beer Guide
Buoy
1 8th St., Astoria, 325-4540, buoybeer.com.
Situated on the planks of the Riverwalk overhanging the
Columbia, year-old Buoy has already established itself as a treasure of
the Oregon Coas ... More

Beer Guide
Wil Wheaton
“I absolutely love just about everything
that Deschutes puts out. I’m a huge, huge fan of Obsidian when it’s on
nitro. I love going to the Rogue taphouse and getting a mix of ... More

Murmurs
An independent analysis of Airbnb’s Portland hosts
reveals only 93 of 2,006 online rentals in the city show they have a
city permit to operate legally. That’s just 4.6 percent. The city of Por ... More

Meet Oregon’s biggest Spurs fan.

Headout
Until the 2013 NBA Finals, I’d never seen anyone I know cry over sports.
And then came Game 7
of the series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat. After
Tim Duncan uncharacteristi ... More

Headout Picks
WEDNESDAY FEB. 25
MILK MUSIC
[HEAVY VIBES] Milk Music’s grungy rock is
mired in murk, owing to the fact that each release so far has been
recorded straight to tape. But within the mud, among ... More

Bar Reviews
In 2013, when WW published its first Beer Guide, it
was pretty easy to list the city’s serious beer bars. Even here in
Beervana, each quadrant had only a few destinations with an
ever-changi ... More

When the going got tough, Matt Flegel just got noisier.

Music Stories
When Calgary-based noise-pop band Women split up in 2012,
it wasn’t without controversy. Led by brothers Matt and Patrick Flegel,
the band had carved out a niche as one of the most innovative ... More

Medallion (Glad I Did)

Album Reviews
[EPIC POP] Whereas debut albums often begin with a bang,
sophomore records tend to start with a statement. Lost Lander hit the
ground running in 2012 with its excellent first album, DRRT,
pair ... More

Music Stories
[ELECTRONIC SOUL] Much has been made about Dan Snaith’s
inability to stay still. The Canadian musician, who records under the
name Caribou, has never made the same record twice, constantly
e ... More

Liz Taylor’s Portland granddaughter keeps her legacy alive.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Elizabeth Taylor was many things during her life, which
was spent mostly under the spotlight and in the public eye. She was
perhaps the most famous star of Hollywood’s golden age, netting two ... More

Investigating the FBI.

Movie Reviews & Stories
On March 8, 1971, the night
that Joe Frazier fought Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, a
group of activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pa. They found
documents proving the FBI a ... More

Scoop
NOTHING UNDER THE KILT:
Sherwood’s Two Kilts Brewing Company caused a stir earlier this month
when it decided against expanding into a 11,000-square-foot facility in
Hillsboro. Signs on the do ... More

Black Pussy is Portland’s most controversial band.

Music Stories
Whoever thought a band calling itself Black Pussy could be controversial?
Not singer-guitarist
Dustin Hill, apparently. When he bestowed the Google-unfriendly name on
his stoner-rock project t ... More

The Videodrome director turns his eye to toxic celebrity culture in Maps to the Stars.

Movie Reviews & Stories
David Cronenberg has always been fixated on bodies. He fused them to television screens in Videodrome, crafted the finest head-explosion scenes of all time in Scanners, and charted every gruesome st ... More

You’re Kanye or you’re no one.

Books
Last November, Jack Conte of the California indie-pop duo
Pomplamoose penned a blog post on the plight of the modern indie-rock
band. “Being in an indie band,” Conte wrote, “is running a n ... More

Theater
A song-studded romp detailing one adorable girl’s murder of another for the lead role in a school play, Ruthless! The Musical explores
the sinister glint behind every child star’s manufactured ... More

Dr. Know
Our snowpack is dangerously low. Can you explain why
the city isn’t asking us to conserve water? Would it not be wise to
start conserving now, instead of waiting for a crisis?
—Better Safe ... More

Looking for laughs in all the dark places.

Theater
“Sad and poor Irish people sitting in a room” is practically a theatrical genre unto itself these days. The Night Alive,
a play by famed Irish playwright Conor McPherson, hardly reinvents it. ... More

Willie Weed
Sunday brunch with endless mimosas and
from-the-can hollandaise is basic. Local coffee laced with locally
grown, trimmed and prepared weed is not.
Caffeine and THC are a
wonderful pair. But ... More

What we learned from reading this week’s paper.

Findings
The Bull Run Reservoir is not filled by melting glaciers, but by springs and falling rain.
Mt. Hood Community College’s board could take a hard right
thanks to a fringe Republican candidate who ... More

Food Reviews & Stories
A list of the five spots we're excited about right now—maybe taquerias we've loved forever, maybe seafood spots with special menus this week. It's designed to answer that age-old question: Where should we go out to dinner tonight? ... More

Food Reviews & StoriesOur pick for the top brewpub, dive bar or wine lounge might change by the time you've finished reading this. But here are the spots, new and old, that we're most excited about right now. ... More